Oblique tattoo machine

ABSTRACT

A marking device with a oscillating needle. The needle is attached through a needle bar on a armature bar which is attracted by a electromagnetic assembly. A from rear to front ascending angled stair-like milled yoke supports the electromagnetical assembly, which consists of one lower and one heigher coil. A spring mount with an adequate angle is mounted to the side plates. An inversely proportional bent armature bar levels that before mentioned angle. The armature bar is attached through a spring to the spring mount. The angle of the set-up procures the oscillating armature bar with a both forth and downward motion, following a so called arc principle. The air gap between the front coil and the armature bar is effectively smaller. The needle hits the skin not in a straight motion but in a diving motion. Thus the resistance of the skin is easier to overcome.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The invention relates to an improved way of applying pigments or dye or other fluids such as medical solutions or similar subcutaneously or intradermal into human or animal skin or into other matter like leather or plastics.

The invention pertains to US Patent class No 81, subclass 9.22.

2. Discussion of the Prior Arrt

Tattoo machines and related devices are shown in some following representative patents listed below:

US Patent Reference 196747 November 1877 Edison 464801 November 1891 O'Rilly 4159659 July 1979 Nightingale 5054339 October 1991 Yacowitz 5551319 September 1996 Spaulding et al. 6282987 March 2001 Moniz May also be used as reference in the prior art: machinegun magazine published by eikon device inc. www.machinegunmagazine.com or www.eikondevice.com Machine gun magazine #1, printed 2001 by eikon device, 692 Mc Kay st, Kingston, ON, Canada K7M 7G2, pages 6/7 Machine gun magazine #2, printed 2002 by eikon device, 692 Mc Kay St, Kingston, ON, Canada K7M 7G2, pages 28/29 Machine gun magazine #5, 2004 eikon device, 692 Mc Kay st, Kingston, ON, Canada K7M 7G2Z Machine gun magazine #6, 2005 eikon device, 692 Mc Kay St, Kingston, ON, Canada K7M 7G2, pages 7-9

The efficiency of tattooing devices relies on the manner in which the color solution or pigment is pushed into the skin by a needle or needle group. Therefore the device must overcome the opposition of the skin while penetrating it. The common way to do so is to use a needle or needlegroup which hits the skin in a linear way.

The loose end of the armature bar of a electromagnetic coil powered machine moves on a circular segment in the manner of a perpendicular tangent which issues above linear movement. This movement is naturally not straight since it is situated on a circle.

The armature bar of a D.C. Motor also runs in a linear course.

The power of the penetrating needle depends principally on the length of the armature bar (a.k.a. lever bar) and the distance between the armature bar and the front coil (a.k.a. air gap) that the armature bar has to overcome.

The efficiency of pushing colour into the skin depends further on the speed of the reciprocating needle. Only, the faster the machine runs the easier it is to cut and destroy the skin.

Other than that the functionality of a tattooing device depends on its size and weight.

The invention aims to improve the above mentioned components.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is an object of the invention to provide an improved electomagnetically driven electrical marking device or tattoo machine which follows the arc principle: the armature bar moves on a circular segment, only that the radius of the circle does not move on a horizontal plane but on a plane issued by a positive angle. The needlebar attached to the armature bar moves forward while it is pushed downwards. The needle itself is held by rubber bands in a fixed course. The color is literally lifted into the skin, contrary to be pushed in the skin in a linear way.

It is at the same time object of the invention to provide a electromotor driven tattoo machine (rotary machine) which follows that same arc principal.

It is another object of the invention to provide the machine with an unique shaped, bent hammer in order to achive that arc principle and to keep the height of the machine as small as possible.

It is another object of the invention to put the coil(s) of a electromagnetically driven tattoo machine at an angle in order to reduce the size and weight of the tattoo machine and therefore the leverage effect on the operator's hand.

It is another object of the invention to use different sized coils mounted on an angled, in a stair like manner composed assembly by using a lower back coil in the case of using two coils, in order to reduce size and weight.

It is another object of the invention to provide a hammer that is proportionally longer because of using that angled configuration so as to enhance the leverage effect of the hammer.

It is another object of the invention to provide a machine that by the above mentioned improvements works more effectively allowing for a reduced number of penetrations of the needles into the skin which makes it easier on the skin.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

On the drawing sheet no 1 4 figures are shown, FIG. 1A to FIG. 1D.

FIGS. 1A, 1B and 1D show the invented machine.

FIG. 1C shows a conventional tattoo machine for comparison purposes.

FIG. 1A shows the invention from a side view in a set up manner.

FIG. 1B shows the main components in a structural side view.

FIG. 1C shows a conventional machine from a front right side upper view.

FIG. 1D shows the invented machine from a front right side upper view.

On the drawing sheet no 2 3 figures are shown, FIG. 2A to FIG. 1C:

FIG. 2A shows the machine from the side in order to illustrate the arc principle.

FIG. 2B shows the machine from the side in order to illustrate the air gap.

FIG. 2C shows the machine from the side in order to illustrate an angled base block without stair.

The following numbers match FIG. 1B to D

-   1 Top Binding Post with Contact screw -   2 Front Spring -   3 Hammer/Lever Bar -   4 Rear Spring -   5 Front Coil -   6 Rear Coil -   7 Spring Mount, in FIGS. 1B and 1D attached to the Frame Side Plate -   8 Yoke -   9 Frame Base

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The tattoo machine according to the invention as seen in a set-up manner in FIG. 1A and seperately explained in FIG. 1B consists of a Frame Base 9 at which the frame side plate and the spring mount 7 are attached, the dotted lines at the front end of 9 show the spring vise. The spring mount itself is attached at a 25° angle towards the side plate. On the frame base the stair-like milled yoke 8 is attached in a milled slot with a screw. The coils 5, 6 are attached to the yoke with threaded pins, as shown in 8 with dotted lines. The smaller rear coil 6 equalizes the size of the higher front coil 5 through the stair in the yoke. The angle of the yoke stairs is for around 3° smaller than that one of the spring mount. A bent armature bar 3 is attached with a back spring 4 to the spring mount and is in loose contact via the front spring 2 with the adjustable contact screw 1.

FIG. 2A shows the circular motion (arc principle) 1 of the hammer, which is in this figure not explicitely bend for easier depiction.

FIG. 2A2 shows the uplift of the needle while it is pushed forward, explaining the diving motion.

FIG. 2A3 shows the needle holding tubular device.

FIG. 2B1 shows the above mentioned air gap.

FIG. 2C shows a machine without a stair in the yoke.

As shown in FIGS. 1C and D the differences of a conventional tattoo machine and the invention are clearly described and the above discribed or depicted is to be considered as illustrative only in order to understand the principles of the invention.

An electric motor driven (rotary) machine is not explicitely depicted but follows the same principles as the invention and is therefore considered being deduceable.

Any changes and derivations from the above displayed invention regarding sizes, measurements, angles, form and shape and processed matter are considered to be an interpretation and are regarded to be within the scope of the invention.

To those skilled in the art it is evident that components for the functioning of a electromagetically driven tattoo machine are not assertively mentioned or described, since they are regarded general knowledge. This is not a deficiency within the explanation of the invention. 

1-9. (canceled)
 10. An electrical marking device comprising: a frame, a lever/armature bar, an impelling device supported on said frame for reciprocating said armature bar, a needlebar with a needle or needle group on the one side and means to be connected to said armature bar on the other side, said needle bar connected to said armature bar, a convertible prolated hollow needle guiding means including means to carry liquid/ink, means to keep the needlebar from moving/jiggling in other than the desired course.
 11. A device according to claim 10 wherein: said frames frame base contains a hole at the front end to hold said needle guiding means, said hole is supported by means to fix said exchangeable needle guiding means each time in the predetermined rectangular way, convertible grip means contain said hollow needle guiding means, said grip means conduct said needlebar in a predetermined way, said armature bar has means to connect to the needlebar.
 12. A device according to claim 11 wherein: said needle bar and therefore said needle group move in a both forward and downward motion, said motion follows a so-called arc principle.
 13. A device according to claim 12 wherein: said frame comprises a spring mount aligned in the same direction as the frame base at the level of the rear end of said frame base, said impelling device is a electromagnetic assembly with a breaker contact, said armature bar is connected by resilient means to said spring mount, said means to keep the needle bar from moving/jiggling are rubber bands.
 14. A device according to claim 13 wherein: said resilient means consist of spring steel, said breaker contact consists of a contakt screw on the one side and a spring mounted to said armature bar on the other side.
 15. A device according to claim 14 wherein: said electromagnetic assembly is arranged in a rising angle towards the frame base with the center of the angle at the rear end of the frame base, said spring mount is set up in a similar angle and equivalent way.
 16. A device according to claim 15 wherein: said armature bar is bent in front of the point where it touches said electromagnetic assembly in a inversely proportional way towards said electomagnetical assembly's angle.
 17. A device according to claim 16 wherein: said armature bar is additionally processed in order to achieve the desired weight.
 18. A device according to claim 17 wherein: said frame consists of metal, said electromagnetic assembly consists of two coils, said frame has two side frames, one attached to each side of said base, said angled structure is achieved by the use of a steel yoke supported by the frame base through a milled slot, said spring mount is supported predeterminedly by said frame side plates through a milled slot, said side plates have a slot for attaching the means containing the contact screw.
 19. A device according to claim 18 wherein: said frame consists of aluminum.
 20. A device according to claim 19 wherein: said electromagnetical assembly consists of different sized coils, said yoke has a stair milled into the angle for correct alignment of said different sized coils.
 21. A device according to claim 20 wherein: said yoke has holes with internal threads, said coils are exchangeably attached to the yoke with threaded pins.
 22. A device according to claim 12 wherein: said impeling device consists of a D.C. motor, said frame has two side plates forming a pivot, said armaure bar is the lever, said motor is at the distal end, said lever doesn't move around a horizontal plane. 